Laurel Mountain, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Laurel Mountain borough is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 142 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1813 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 9% of them. The median age here is 48.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Laurel Mountain borough earn a median of $71,250 a year, 9.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 1.4% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Laurel Mountain borough is valued at $218,200, 28.1% below the national figure and 13% above the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 90.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 142 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Laurel Mountain borough against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Laurel Mountain borough because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.